EDITOR—Bishop's personal view on the negligence of medical experts should not pass unchallenged.1

Lord Woolf made it clear in the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, which came into effect in 1999, that all expert witnesses, medical or otherwise, have an absolute obligation to follow them. Part 35 sets out that the expert has an overriding duty to help the court, not to support the party who has engaged the expert. This …